Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Nov. 5, 1916 [November 5, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
  Forenoon dark cloudy with incessant, but
at no time heavy, rain. Clouds thinner
in afternoon with no rainfall. Very chilly
all day.
  In Garden: A Peabody bird & 2 House Sparrows
feeding together in Pigeon grain. Crow
cawing not far off.
  Spent forenoon in Museum, writing
letters. Miss Allyn [Alice Allyn] & Frank Manning
our guests at dinner. With Miss Henders
C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] we sat down six at
table whereat was served roasted the
cock Pheasant shot at Concord a week
or more ago. Although everyone seemed
to be helped liberally the bird's white
& savory flesh was not quite all gone
at the end of the meal. I skinned
out some of the handsomer parts of
his plumage before he was plucked.
  Frank stayed until 5 P.M.
E.R.S. read letters from John Ames & I
played Victrola, for our evening entertainment.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Nov. 6, 1916 [November 6, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
J.E. Law visits me.
Clear & cool but not frosty. Light
westerly wind.
  Almost all deciduous foliage fallen
in Garden & Jungle. Only remaining 
flowers a few Zinnias & Marigolds in
sheltered places & abandoned small
Chrysanthemums. Grapes all gone;
there were not many this year. To
their failure, no doubt, is due the
absence of the Peabody birds, usually
so numerous here at this season & later.
  A Goldcrest Kinglet  [Golden-crowned Kinglet] & about a dozen
House Sparrows, the only birds
noted within our grounds to-day.
  J.E. Law of Los Angeles, California,
came this morning (9.30) by appointment, 
to spend the day with me & see the
collection - a very pleasing young man
whom I liked at first sight & who
also impressed me as an excellent
ornithologist. He departed at 4 P.M.
  Trouble in my right eye, because of which
I did not attend Nuttall Club meeting 
this evening.